Movies like Hostel
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Hostel (2005)
168K

Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Three backpackers head to a Slovakian city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, scary, rough, disturbing, psychological, realistic, cult film, psychotronic, awful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
torture, slasher, gory, psychopath, danger, captivity, gore, crimes, deadly, survival, serial murder, dismemberment, strong violent content, torment, surgery, tourist, friends, hostel, buddies, nudity (full frontal - brief), brutality, blood, confined, dishonesty, missing person ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
amsterdam, europe, slovakia, iceland
Most similar movies to Hostel
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspenseful, rough and serious films with plots about gory, danger, torture, brutality, murder, gore and deadly mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Hostel: Hostel: Part II (2007), Saw (2004), Martyrs (2008), Blood Paradise (2006), Eden Lake (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Following a geographical tour of Slovakia, three young American women are lured into a hostel by a handsome young man who sells them to the twisted masters, ties them up and brings upon an unthinkable world of pain.
Style:
controversial, disturbing, rough, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
slasher, castration, torture, strong sexual content, kidnapping, murder, psychopath, sadistic horror, tourist, gory, severed penis, nudity (full frontal - brief) ...
Time:
contemporary, 2000s
Place:
europe, prague, slovakia, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
374K

Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer abducts the morally wayward. Once captured, they must face impossible choices in a horrific game of survival. The victims must fight to win their lives back, or ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, psychological, twists and turns, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
torture, mind game, captivity, plot twist, psychopath, serial killer, insanity, survival, race against time, master criminal, gory, doctor ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
82K

Genre: Horror
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A young woman's quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her as a child leads her and a friend, who is also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.
Style:
disturbing, rough, twists and turns, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
torture, child abuse, violence, brutality, kidnapping, cult, torment, torture chamber, gory, suffering, afterlife, death ...
Time:
contemporary, year 1971
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A group of young backpackers' vacation turns sour when a bus accident leaves them marooned in a remote Brazilian rural area that holds an ominous secret.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, rough, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
slasher, jungle, gory, black market, survival, torture, chase, strong violent content, murder, transplant, violence, bondage ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
brazil, latin america, argentina, rio de janeiro
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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76K

Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Eden Lake is a relentlessly tense and immaculately paced horror-thriller about modern youth gone wild. When a young couple goes to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of local kids. ...
Style:
bleak, brutal, suspense, bad ending, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, kids
Plot:
survival, torture, gang, youth, forest, fear, in the woods, chase, murder, slasher, death of protagonist, camping ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Adventure, Horror
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A group of student activists travel from New York City to the Amazon to save the rainforest. However, once they arrive in this vast green landscape, they soon discover that they are not alone… and that no good deed goes unpunished.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, bloody, rough, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
jungle, cannibal, torture, survival, violence, amazon rainforest, brutality, gory, cannibalism, confined, extreme violence, escape attempt ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary, 80s
Place:
south america, peru, latin america, chile, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%

Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Set in Las Vegas, the film centers on a man who attends his best friend's bachelor party, unaware of an insidious agenda that plays into hunting humans.
Style:
scary, disturbing, suspenseful, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
kidnapping, murder, psychopath, sadism, gory, torture, hotel, survival, captivity, buddies, crimes, danger ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
las vegas, usa, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
107K

Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by generations of inbreeding.
Style:
scary, rough, suspenseful, suspense, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
slasher, survival, cannibalism, chase, gory, manhunt, disfigurement, danger, massacre, youth, friendship, isolation ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary, 2000s
Place:
west virginia, virginia, usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A yuppie couple lost in a swamp seek refuge at an isolated farmhouse only to discover they've jumped out of the frying pan into the fire.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense ...
Plot:
castration, psychopath, couples, survival, island, torture, danger, brutality, violence, killer, deadly, couple relations ...
Time:
contemporary
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
93K

Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young married couple becomes stranded at an isolated motel and find hidden video cameras in their room. They realize that unless they escape, they'll be the next victims of a snuff film.
Style:
scary, psychological thriller, suspenseful, macabre, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
slasher, survival horror, trapped, serial killer, isolation, danger, hostage, estranged couple, hidden camera, one night, deception, hostages ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Desperate to help her ailing brother, a young woman agrees to compete in a deadly game of "Would You Rather," hosted by a sadistic aristocrat.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, scary, rough, sadistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
psychopath, moral dilemma, danger, survival, deathtrap, captivity, mind game, torture, threat, group of strangers, dishonesty, game ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
6K

Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A group of attractive young people (of course) awaken to find themselves prisoners in a mysterious house with no means of escape. They are each outfitted with new accouterments--electronic devices attached to the base of their skulls--and a ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, realistic, serious, scary
Plot:
trapped, sadism, torture, survival, brutality, psychopath, captivity, danger, deadly, gory, confined, escapades ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%

Genre: Horror
Country: France, Italy, Romania
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Alexia travels with her friend Marie to spend a couple of days with her family in their farm in the country. They arrive late and they are welcomed by Alexia's father. Late in the night, a sadistic and sick killer breaks into the farmhouse, ...
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Plot:
slasher, insanity, home invasion, massacre, survival, kidnapping, psychopath, farmhouse, serial killer, gory, bound and gagged, chase ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
france, europe, south of france, southern france
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%

Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Five friends visiting their grandfather's house in the country are hunted and terrorized by a chain-saw wielding killer and his family of grave-robbing cannibals.
Style:
banned film, cult film, scary, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
slasher, serial killer, hitchhiker, chainsaw, gas station, psychopath, danger, cannibalism, murder, gory, massacre, loss of friend ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%

Genre: Horror
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A gang of young thieves flee Paris during the violent aftermath of a political election, only to hole up at an Inn run by neo-Nazis.
Style:
macabre, scary, suspenseful, bleak, rough ...
Plot:
cannibalism, psychopath, torture, sadistic horror, sadism, survival, human monster, cruelty, confined, strong violent content, violence, captivity ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
paris france, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies similar to The Hills Have Eyes

Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A group of teenage girls heading into the city hook up with a gang of drug-addled ne'er-do-wells and are brutally murdered. The killers find their way to the home of one of their victim's parents, where both father and mother exact a ...
Style:
brutal, scary, suspenseful, rough, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
rape, violence, slasher, sexualized violence, woman in danger, sadism, torture, violence against women, danger, murder, gory, serial killer ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%

Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A group of delinquents are sent to clean the Blackwell Hotel. Little do they know reclusive psychopath Jacob Goodnight (Jacobs) has holed away in the rotting hotel. When one of the teens is captured, those who remain -- a group that includes the cop ...
Style:
rough, twists and turns, scary, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, sadistic horror, maniac, hotel, danger, slasher, murder, characters killed one by one, axe, serial murder, religious fanatic ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary, 2000s, 80s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
100K

Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA, Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw's legacy. However, when the FBI draws closer to Hoffman, he is forced to set a game into motion, and Jigsaw's grand scheme is finally ...
Style:
twists and turns, scary, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
trap, mind game, serial killer, violence, murder, secretary, captivity, gory, police investigation, death, confined, deadly ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century, 2000s
Place:
usa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%

Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.
Style:
scary, brutal, macabre, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
slasher, psychopath, trap, serial killer, home invasion, violence, gory, extreme violence, masked man, homicidal maniac, torture, held captive ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
114K

Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A group of unwitting teens are stranded near a strange wax museum and soon must fight to survive and keep from becoming the next exhibit.
Style:
scary, suspense, gothic, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
slasher, psychopath, murder, serial killer, ghost town, traffic jam, woman in danger, wax museum, violence, torture, group of friends, small town ...
Time:
50s, 21st century, contemporary, 20th century, year 1974 ...
Place:
usa, louisiana, new york, florida, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies similar to Eden Lake
108K

Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
After being committed for 17 years, Michael Myers, now a grown man and still very dangerous, escapes from the mental institution (where he was committed as a 10 year old) and he immediately returns to Haddonfield, where he wants to find his baby ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, rough, psychological, serious ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
slasher, psychopath, halloween, serial killer, teenage life, massacre, sadism, manhunt, mask, vengeance, danger, track down ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century, 70s
Place:
midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%

Genre: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Inspired by the fictional Dr. Heiter, disturbed loner Martin dreams of creating a 12-person centipede and sets out to realize his sick fantasy.
Style:
sadistic, scatology, disturbing, banned film, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sexual sadism, pervert, kidnapping, psychopath, sexual torture, torture, rapist, gore, brutality, sexual abuse, violence, rape ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%

Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Belgium
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
During their nightly poker game a group of lowlifes are terrorized in their own convenience store by a masked killer.
Style:
suspenseful, scary, tense, twists and turns, macabre ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
slasher, serial killer, psychopath, danger, store, deadly, buddies, gory, survival, stalking, sadism, security camera ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
14%
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Genre: Horror
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
During a stopover in Germany in the middle of a carefree road trip through Europe, two American girls find themselves alone at night when their car breaks down in the woods. Searching for help at a nearby villa, they are wooed into the clutches of a ...
Style:
brutal, offbeat, suspenseful, macabre, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
kidnapping, insanity, crimes, experiment gone awry, mad scientist, surgeon, victim, body horror, confined, violence, strong violent content, excrement ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%

Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
"ChromeSkull" is the sequel to the 2009 horror hit "Laid to Rest." It brings back ChromeSkull, who barely escaped death in the first movie and is hell-bent on continuing where he left off... and forging a new path of terror and ...
Style:
disturbing, stylized, rough, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
slasher, survival, psychopath, haunted by the past, obsession, escapades, rivalry, danger, crimes, deadly, gory, master criminal ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies similar to House of Wax

Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A young woman learns that she has inherited a Texas estate from her deceased grandmother. After embarking on a road trip with friends to uncover her roots, she finds she is the sole owner of a lavish, isolated Victorian mansion. But her newfound ...
Style:
scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, brutal ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
slasher, murder, hitchhiker, serial killer, violence spree, killing off one by one, psychopath, crimes, danger, gore, death, serial murder ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary, 1990s, 70s, 90s
Place:
texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%

Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A gang of ruthless highway killers kidnap a wealthy couple traveling cross country only to shockingly discover that things are not what they seem.
Style:
scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
kidnapping, trap, psychopath, gang, danger, serial killer, hostage, captivity, deadly, crimes, hunt down, crime gone awry ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
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100%

Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Two teenage couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of serial killers end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.
Style:
scary, rough, cult film, macabre, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
halloween, urban legend, cannibalism, murder, youth, serial killer, hitchhiker, satanic ritual, gory, slasher, violence spree, massacre ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary, year 1977, 70s
Place:
texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%

Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A group of five college graduates rent a cabin in the woods and begin to fall victim to a horrifying flesh-eating virus, which attracts the unwanted attention of the homicidal locals.
Style:
suspense, rough, dark humor, scary, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
virus, survival, plague, danger, infected, illness, disease, gory, deadly, small town, deadly virus, death ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century, 2000s, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%

Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Romania
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon ...
Style:
scary, brutal, suspenseful, serious, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
slasher, cannibalism, desert, rape, survival, victim, massacre, human monster, kidnapping, danger, fear, genetically altered ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary, year 2006
Place:
new mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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